Poultry-brooder



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E. P. SNYDER. POULTRY BBQODER.

No. 503,172 Patented Aug. 15, 1893.-

ll egfr ER Snyder UNITED STATES PATENT O FICE.

EMORY P. SNYDER, OF OHAMBERSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

POULTRY-BROODER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 503,172, dated August15, 1893. Application filed October 20, 1892. Serial No. 449,460. (Nomodel.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EMORY P. SNYDER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chambersburg, in the county of Franklin and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Poultry-Brooder, of whichthe following 's a specification.

lV y invention relates to improvements in poultry-brooders, and theobject of my invention is to provide means to prevent the smothering,common among young chickens; furthermore, to provide means to maintainan even temperature, thereby preventing chillin g and oven-heating; andfurthermore, to pro; vide simple and readily operated means for feeding,liberating, and providing light and air to the poultry.

Furtherobjectsand advantages of myinvention will appear in the followingdescription, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointedout in the appended claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a brooder embodyingmy improvements. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same.Fig. 3 is a plan view of the floor of the brooding chamber, showing indotted lines the arrangement of the heating cylinder and conductingtubes. Fig. 4 is a detail view of one of the sections of the raised,perforated platform. Fig. 5 is a similar view of a section of the raisedplatform covered with canvas or other fabric, this being used when thechickens are too young to be placed upon the grating of the platform.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A represents the box or inclosure,which is divided by a vertical partition, B, into sections or divisions,in one of which, at the top, is arranged the brooding-chamber, G, and inthe other the feeding chamber, D, these feeding and brooding chambersbeing arranged to communicate through the opening, E, in the verticalpartition.

F designates the floor of the brooding chamber, beneath which, at itscenter, is arranged the vertical heating cylinder, G, having an opening,g, in its bottom to receive the upper end of the chimney of a lamp orheating'device, H. Communicating with this cylinder are the radiallydisposed distributing or conducting tubes, I, which are half-tubular inshape and are secured by means of flanges to the under side of the floorof the broodingchamber. The heat which is received in the heatingcylinder is distributed by means of these tubes, and the upper sides ofthe latter being formed by the floor of the compartment it is evidentthat the heat is communicated directly thereto without appreciable loss.Vertical corner walls are arranged at the angles of the brooding-chamberto form flues, K K,

which communicate, by means of apertures,

k k, in their bottoms, with the heating compartment, L, in which isarranged the heating-device. This heatingcompartment is provided with adoor, L, and the broodingchamber is provided with a door, M, and sidewindows m m, to admit light, and, when necessary, air.

The floor, N, of the feeding compartment is provided with an opening,71, and the inclined way, 0, which is arranged at its upper end close tothe inner side of the floor, N, and at its lower end on the plane of thebottom of the exit, P, is also provided with an opening, 0, and aswinging leaf, Q, is hinged to the bottom of the opening E in thevertical partition and is adapted to lie in either of the openings, '11,0, so as to complete either the floor of the feeding chamber or theinclined way. An operating cord, R, is attached to this swinging leafand extends to the outside of the box or inclosure. The roof of thefeeding chamber is provided with a sliding glass door, to afiord lightat all times and ventilation when necessary.

I arrange a perforated false-bottom, S, in the brooding-chamber, with asubjacent airspace, 8, between the same and the floor of the chamber,whereby the chickens are prevented when crowded together from smotheringthose at the bottom of the pile. This frequently happens with youngchickens, those at the bottom being unable to liberate themselves, andbeing entirely out off from a supply of air. But by the use of a raised,perforated platform, which is separated from the imperforate floor ofthe chamber by an intermediate air-space this danger is avoided. I alsopreferably form this platform in separable sections, S, S and S, thecentral section being horizontal and the end sections being inclinedupward toward their outer edges, as shown clearly in Fig. 2. This is toprevent IOC the crowding of the chickens in the corners of the chamber,the.

In Fig. 5 I have illustrated a form of the platform which is coveredwith canvas, tickmg, or other porous fabric which will allow the air topenetrate therethrough, said platform being designed for use with thechickens immediately after being hatched, to prevent them from beingchilled. The tubes I I extend beneath the vertical flues K K, and cominunicate therewith through small apertures, k 70', by which the heat fromthe lamp is conveyed directly to the flues, and is also admitted theretothrough the apertures, 70.

Changes in the form, proportion and the minor details of constructionmay be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificingany of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. In a poultry-brooder, the brooding-chamber provided at its sides withvertical imperforate fines, a subjacent heating-chamber, aheating-cylinder located at the center of the heating-chamber in contactwith the inter posed imperforate main floor of the broodingchamber,horizontal distributing tubes in contact with the under surface of saidmain floor of the brooding-chamber, communicating at their inner endswith the heating cylinder and at their outer ends with the lower ends ofthe vertical fines, a perforate removable floor arranged above andseparated from the main floor, and means for supplying heat to itiheiheating-cylinder, substantially as speci- 2. In aponltry brooder abrooding-chamber provided with a perforated floor having a centralhorizontal portion and side portions which are inclined toward thecenter to prevent crowding in the corners, substantially as specified.

In a poultry brooder, the combination with the brooding-chamber providedwith an imperforate floor, of a perforated and raised platform restingupon andsupported by said floor and comprising a central horizontal andside inclined sections, substantially as specified.

4. In a poultry brooder, the feeding chamber having its' floor partlycut away to form an opening, an inclined way located beneath the floorof the feeding chamber and having a similar opening near its upper end,a swinging leaf adapted to fit either of said openings, to completeeither the floor of the feedingchamber or the inclined way, and means tooperate said leaf, substantially as specified.

5. In a poultry brooder, the box provided with an intermediate verticalpartition, a brooding-chamber at one side of said partition and afeeding-chamber at the other side thereof, said chambers communicatingthrough an opening in the partition, an inclined way leading from saidopening near the plane of the floor of the feeding-chamber to an exit, aswinging leaf adapted to fit in openings in either the inclined way orthe floor of the feeding chamber, and means to operate said leaf,substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

EMORY P. SNYDER. Witnesses:

DAVID FRANK, A. M. ORIsWELL.

